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Microbial diversity: The tree of life comes of age

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A new large-scale genomics study reports a vastly expanded tree of life that is based on genomic data from over 3,000 species, including many uncultivated and poorly characterized prokaryotes.

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Figure 1: Recent changes in the tree of life.

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  1. Anja Spang and Thijs J. G. Ettema are in the Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden.,

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Spang, A., Ettema, T. Microbial diversity: The tree of life comes of age. Nat Microbiol 1, 16056 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.56

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